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it's dangerous course to whirl harmless in the
upper air-these would seem to be the con-
ceptior.s of n higher than human intellect.
Surely no other living man has done so much
TO advance the great contamination, where
man, at first the slave of nature, shall be her
mastor-shall indeed subdue the earth and
have dominion over it.
The Hon. David Dudley Field, at tho ago
Of So, is still in active life sufficiently to
b. known TO the public. He was born in
lnddnm, Conn, in 1905, and his first vivid
collections arc of the beginning of the war
Of 1879. In 1923 he entered law practice in
New York city, where he has been noted for
forty years. His Penal Code is the law of
tho state and his Civil Code is an authority
in tho courts. His political life has been ex-
trcmoly varied; he was at once n Democrat
and nm Abolitionist, and is remembered for
his legal services to the Democrats in the
Hnyes-Tilden electoral contest. He is a good
liver, using tea, coffee and vino; but for to-
bacco he has II natural adherence. He is
still in active practice and attributes his en-
DURANGO chiefly to a naturally good c~onstitu-
ton and abundant exercise. John @. Whit
tier, tho genial Quaker poet, is two years
younger than Mr.. Field, and still in fair
NAiN hb hH liNollbt Olh hlOll' III DHn-
veTs, Mass His friends celebrated his S0th
birthday on tho nth of December, and the
day is now ono OF musical and literary
exercises in many schools all over the
country. He has never married, and has
INDUCED but little in society, is temperate in
oil things and has lived tho simple life of
rural Quakcrs. His contemporary in art, Pro-
fessor Robert W. Weir, is 81 years old, yet
handles tho brush and palette occasionally.
He is n nntivc OF New York and has devoted
his life TO art, having painted several noted
pictures. Tho Rev. DIR. Thomas E. Yer
milye, at tho ago of 81, is still ono of New
York city's well known preachers, though
for some years he has abstaincd from regular
pastoral labors. Nearly oil his life has been
passed in his native city, which he has seen
grow northward from Canal street to the
Harlem. He is n very free liveJ as to food,
but uses neither tobacco nor liquor. While
Mr.. Vermilye was still n schoolboy George
L. Perkins, of Norwich, Conn, was q man in
active business, yet the latter still works Mt
his Office as treasurer Of the Norwich and
Worcester branch of tho New England rail
road, an office he has held hfty-onc years.
He was born in Norwich, Aug. 5, 17SS, and
so lacks but seven months or so of being 100
years old. He is undoubtedly tho oldest
American in active business. He is six feet
tall, straight and active; served in tho de
fensc of Stonington against tho British sew
enty-fivc years ago, married siXty-sevGn
years ago n lady who is still living, and has
been an nctivo and prominent business man
for seventy years. He lives well and drinks
wine, but never used tobacco.
Theodore Dwight Woolsey, the noted doc
tor of divinity, was born in New York city,
Oct, 81, 1901. He graduated from Yale col
lego in 1920, and thereafter his fame grew
nDrntfFttnrg1N f,,. ETtxv ,~nnr $50 80, 80, l,,,t-
and writer IN law, morals and religion.
Until the last year his n~ctivity of body re-
manned, but of late he is feeble and rarely
seen upon the streets of New Haven, where
he resides.
Oswald Ottendorfer, the veteran journalist
now making n tour of Europe, is hardly old
enough to shine in this list, Us he was born
Sept. 20, 1926, in Zwittau, Austria. Like so
many talented Germans he had to fly his
country for taking part in the revolutionary
movements of forty odd years ago. His
career MS editor of The New York Staats
Zeitung is well known. He is n FREQ liver,
using wine and beer with tho freedom COM
mon in Germany.
This list must end with the veteran show
man, p. 7. Barnum, who makes his home
now at the Murray Hill hotel, New York city.
lie was born July 3, 1910, and began business
for himself us soon rs he was able to go out
with other boys. Even as n school boy he
was distinguished for good traits and
schemes to improve his condition. At the
age of 81 he edited n country paper, and was
imprisoned for an alleged libel, MS in those
days proving the truth of n statement was no
defense. He was only locally known as a
Snowman till he brought Jenny Lind to
America; that management earned him
$4,000 and n world wide fame. All the
reading public knows of the ingenious de-
vices he used to advertise her coming, and
finally of the sale at auction of preferred
seats, of which Mr.. John Genin, q halter,
paid S225 for the first ono. The episode made
Gcnin ulmosta as famous as Barnum or Jenny
Lind, and his hats were everywhere in do
mand As hemado a good article and sold at n
fair price, his trade became he soon
made n competency and retired from business
to an elegant residence on Murray hill, the
fashionable center of New York. He died a
few years ago and his widow, Mrs Mary
Gcnin, with her family, occupy the residence,
2j East Fifty-fourth street Mr.. I0rnum has
been twice n member OF congress, twice
mayor Of Bridgeport, Conn, and four times
n member Of the legislature His many dis,
astrous experiences with fire are well known
and have been recalled by the recent destruc,
ton OF his shows winter quarters at Bridge
port. He rutains all his strength of mind
and much of his strength Of body. He eats
freely Of good ordinary food, but used liquor
only four years of his life, from lSIS to 1917.
For forty years he has not tasted anything
stronger than tolerably fresh cider. He is
getting n little too neshy to feel first rate,
and his basis theory is that health and long
life depend at least as much on tho mind as
the body.
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